The U.S. Army has announced plans to add nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas as a reliable energy source independent of the commercial electric grid.
I’d prefer it was a both-and thing, not an either-or. I think we should ramp up solar and turbines much, much, much more but I also think we should have (modern) nuclear installations augmenting things, as we take coal-fire plants offline.
A lot of people are in love with nuclear! It’s so easy to forget Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. There are lots of lessor incidents.. I’d rather see solutions like better batteries, grid-scale batteries, and solar on every rooftop, wind power where conditions support it. I think they’re a lot safer than dealing with ionizing radiation.
I’m not in love with nuclear. My parents were anti-nuclear activists; believe me, I’ve heard a lot of anti-nuclear arguments ever since childhood and for as long as my parents were alive.
Also: I distinctly remember leaving the area of TMI to stay with relatives when the news broke, since my family lived not that far from TMI at the time.
However, I do think new designs do need a new reassessment. I’d want that to be done by people acting in good faith, which of course excludes the clowns and the idiots and the suck-ups in this administration.
Not how that works. These types of reactors have other problems associated with them, but they do still produce waste material that has to be buried. They just produce less than conventional reactors.
Slash renewable power & wind turbines, and install nuclear?
I’d prefer it was a both-and thing, not an either-or. I think we should ramp up solar and turbines much, much, much more but I also think we should have (modern) nuclear installations augmenting things, as we take coal-fire plants offline.
A lot of people are in love with nuclear! It’s so easy to forget Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. There are lots of lessor incidents.. I’d rather see solutions like better batteries, grid-scale batteries, and solar on every rooftop, wind power where conditions support it. I think they’re a lot safer than dealing with ionizing radiation.
I’m not in love with nuclear. My parents were anti-nuclear activists; believe me, I’ve heard a lot of anti-nuclear arguments ever since childhood and for as long as my parents were alive.
Also: I distinctly remember leaving the area of TMI to stay with relatives when the news broke, since my family lived not that far from TMI at the time.
However, I do think new designs do need a new reassessment. I’d want that to be done by people acting in good faith, which of course excludes the clowns and the idiots and the suck-ups in this administration.
And recycling panels and batteries is a lot more appealing than dealing with radioactive waste for hundreds and thousands of years!
nuclear is extremely expensive & carbon-intensive to set up
Not to mention far more dangerous and produces waste material that we’ve decided to just bury.
We’ve developed nuclear reactors that run on that spent nuclear waste
Not how that works. These types of reactors have other problems associated with them, but they do still produce waste material that has to be buried. They just produce less than conventional reactors.